VinegarStrokes

re: The new Prince of Persia is great

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 12/22/25 at 3:01 pm to MississippiLebowski

Kiana was the toughest but most satisfying boss fight so far. So much fun

re: Best One Season TV shows

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 12/19/25 at 2:35 pm to EPORE

I don't know if it was intended to be one season or if it was intended to be a limited series, but the HBO series The Night Of was really good. It came out in that Serial/Making a Murderer hay day but I enjoyed it.

re: The new Prince of Persia is great

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 12/18/25 at 11:34 pm to athenslife101

this game needs more attention ... Says me who is just now picking it up lol.

I've never been a big metroidvania / 2D platformer in my adult age. Obviously played a lot of it growing up with the NES/SNES, but once 3D games hit the ground running I left the 2D stuff behind. Starting to get into them though having just played the first hollow knight. Since then I've been dabbling in Blasphemous, Dead Cells, and now The Lost Crown. The Last Crown grabbed my attention the quickest of those 3 so I'll stick with it until I finish before moving on to one of the others.

This game is fricking great and the puzzles/platforming/combat is very deep and challenging but not frustratingly so. I have been stuck for a bit in the Sacred Archives and haven't been able to get through a few areas, so I finally looked up what I need to do and apparently I need to go back to the sewers/depths to get something. I ventured in there and noped out real quick after I was getting manhandled by some poison bugs.

re: Four Christmases

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 12/15/25 at 3:26 pm to CatfishJohn

"or-doo-vrays"

we say this at dinner party or friends hangout

re: Four Christmases

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 12/15/25 at 3:25 pm to holdmuh keystonelite

"If you think I'm gonna allow a sex predator in a uniform to wander around my house and touch my underwear, you... you got another thing coming!"

re: Which was the better overall product: Cubs/Sox on WGN or Braves on TBS?

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 11/27/25 at 10:01 am to Paul Allen

I vote for TBS because the Cubs used to interfere with the after school watching of Saved by the Bell

re: Paramount Kills ‘Last Ronin’ Film In Favor Of Live-Action ‘TMNT’ from ‘Sonic' director

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 11/26/25 at 9:12 am to St Augustine

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Awesome news if true. I trust the sonic guy to do well with a trusted franchise for kids.

Agreed. i was really hoping that the last attempt at a TMNT franchise would work out. It seemed like they were leaning into the cartoon characters quite a bit....but the movies were just so damned bad.

re: Marshalls - Yellowstone Spinoff w/Luke Grimes

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 11/26/25 at 9:11 am to JYD

I'll watch this for sure, just like I'd watch the shite out of Spencer fricking shite up in Africa. That'd be a instant hit, especially with the ladies if the sounds my wife makes anytime the dude was on screen is any indication.

re: "Babes from days gone by (NSFW)" thread as per request by Kafka..

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 11/25/25 at 10:16 am to LA Lightning

Born in 1985 - Josie Maran was always my favorite during my coming of age years in the mid to late 90s....

re: Ubisoft receives the wrong message, doubles down on "live service" games

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 11/25/25 at 10:12 am to ThuperThumpin

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Every year millions and millions of kids just turn old enough (5-10 year olds) start to get into video games and the first game they get is either Minecraft, Roblox or both.

This right here.

Not to mention that my household (because me and the wife are idiots) have done the following:

1. bought Minecraft for Nintendo Switch
2. bought Minecraft for PC because the kids now have laptops (Chromebooks)
3. bought Minecraft for their Chromebooks because we aren't computer gamers and didn't realize that Chromebooks and PC had different requirements (this I have not checked up on. My wife handled the purchasing of PC and Chromebook Minecraft because I had no desire to get involved since I bought the switch version first)

re: Clair Obscura: Expedition 33 dominates the Golden Joystick Awards. 7 wins

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 11/21/25 at 7:56 pm to Sl0thstronautEsq

Mario Kart should not be on that list

re: MTV's The Challenge 41

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 11/21/25 at 8:04 am to CocomoLSU

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Man, people seem to really hate that Michaela and Cedric read the bible.

People turn insane toward the end of the game. Alliances can't ever get everybody to the final, so eventually someone is gonna have to turn on someone else. At this point they've basically ALL lied to each other, yet everyone is pointing fingers at who lied to whom. It's hilarious.

Every single season of the Challenge has feature teams who are automatically in elimination requesting that the others vote in a certain team. It happens every single season. Michaela and Cedric do it this season and now they are snakes? Maybe it was the way everything was edited but this was one of the more nonsensical fights I've ever seen on the show.

re: Miss Jamaica fell off the stage during Miss Universe, carried away on stretcher

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 11/20/25 at 11:18 pm to hawgfaninc

She shoulda kissed da lucky egg

re: Rockville in Daytona Beach

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 11/18/25 at 2:01 pm to Saint Alfonzo

The Warning’s logo keeps getting bigger and bigger on these festival posters

Music Board

re: Footage of the Legend of Zelda movie being filmed. Update from Nintendo on first page

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 11/17/25 at 10:52 am to statman34

need an adult Purah in this movie

re: Baton Rouge Country Club

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 11/12/25 at 12:10 pm to Texas Tea 123

who the frick would want to join a country club in Baton Rouge? :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

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re: The ATL Offseason Thread: New Manager Edition

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 11/11/25 at 12:48 pm to Broski

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They're not though... every team deals with injuries.

There is no parallel where we let dudes in their prime walk year after year.

lol....k

re: The ATL Offseason Thread: New Manager Edition

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 11/11/25 at 11:04 am to Broski

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I'll gladly take 97-03 compared to the path we seem to be heading down now.

From 97-01 we made the NLCS three of the four years and the World Series once, while making the postseason every year from 97-03.

Compare that to the last two years where, If not for the expanded postseason, we'd be looking at two straight years without making the playoffs.

lol that wasn't the point of the post at all. but the decision making of Scheurholz in the late 90s directly led to the shite show from 2000 beyond where they didn't win a playoff series. He started to break up the core and traded away what could have been key young players to take over, but the pitching trio plus Chipper being in his prime made up for it. Once the trio aged out of their prime that dynasty was done for.

The parallels now are similar, but with the way the game is now, and with the way other teams are building their rosters, the swings from year to year are much quicker and more drastic.

re: The ATL Offseason Thread: New Manager Edition

Posted by VinegarStrokes on 11/10/25 at 11:30 pm to Broski

Time is a damn circle. We are back to that period where we were at from 97-03 or so when Schuerholz started doing some really goofy shite. We lost Justice, Grissom, Klesko, Dye, Schmidt, McGriff, etc paired with a revolving door of major injuries to Javy, Big Cat, Smoltz, etc and never really recaptured the postseason magic.